Forecast: Armen Sargsyan will be the real president of Armenia, having the constitutional tricks of Serzh Sargsyan zeroed

ArmInfo. Armen Sargsyan will be the real president of Armenia, having the constitutional tricks of Serzh Sargsyan zeroed. Member of the "Karabakh" committee, adviser to the first president of Armenia on national security issues Ashot Manucharyan expressed such an opinion to ArmInfo.

On January 19, the current President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, announced the RA Ambassador to Britain, former Armenian Prime Minister Armen Sargsyan, as the candidate of the ruling Republican Party for the presidency. The presidential elections in Armenia will be held on March 2, the parliament deputies, in which the majority of the mandates belong to the Republican Party of Armenia, will elect the president. And the new president will appoint a new prime minister from the same RPA. "Armenia is not an exception among the countries of the post-Soviet space where external control is established, Belarus was the only happy exception and Russia is gradually becoming that, and Armen Sargsyan is a qualitatively new stage of Armenia's external governance. Earlier, Armenia was controlled from the outside strategically in terms of values, economic programs, etc. With the arrival of Armen Sargsyan, a man who for about 20 years exercised the functions of managing our country in Great Britain, in a tool of everyday external management will appear in Armenia directly," the analyst said. According to Manucharyan, with the presidency of Armen Sargsyan, Serzh Sargsyan and his entourage will have to be satisfied with the governance of the state at best a secondary role. Sargsyan's arrival to the post of president is perceived by the analyst as the transition of Armenia's external governance to a qualitatively new level of direct government. According to his forecasts, Armen Sargsyan will come to Armenia not just one, but with thousands of graduates of English and Western universities, members of the "Association of Graduates of English Universities" invisible but influential in Armenia. In the opinion of the analyst, conceiving the reform of the Constitution for himself and in his own interests, Serzh Sargsyan was guided by his own local thinking. "In short, he assumed, and a conditional foreign club now has it, and this club is still needed for the implementation of the transition to direct control by Armenia, but it will not be needed for a long time and very soon it will be forced to leave because it is useless," Manucharyan summed up. According to the RA CEC, in a referendum on December 6, 2015, 66.2% of citizens voted "for" making amendments to the Constitution transforming Armenia into a parliamentary republic, in which the real power will be concentrated in the hands of the prime minister. The new president will be deprived of levers of influence on foreign and defense policy. The armed forces will report to the Minister of Defense, and the functions of the supreme commander-in-chief are assigned to the prime minister during the period of military operations. The main candidate for the premier's post from the RPA is its leader Serzh Sargsyan.